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E. LAGHZB. Reapngand Mowing Machine. No. 232,513. Patented Sept. 21,1880.

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4No. 232,513. Patented Sept. 21,1880.

N, PEIERS.. FHOTO-UTHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON, o C.

STATES NTE REAPING AND MOWING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,513, dated September 21, 18A8O.

Application filed May 13, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMILE LAGHZE, of

Dijon, in the department of Cote dOr, in the Republic of France, have invented certain Improvements in Reaping and Mowing Machines,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

My invention relates to improved means for connecting the iinger-bar with the whifdetree; and it consists in the features of combination hereinafter described, and speciiically pointed out inthe claim.

Figure 1in the drawings is a side elevation, partly in section, of a mowing-machine with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, the cutting apparatus being omitted. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same. Figs. 4t and 5 are detail views of the driving ratchet and pawl.

The framing c of the machine is supported on two carrying-wheels, b, fitted loosely to the axle c. The hub of each wheel carries on its inner side a disk, d, of which Fig. 4t is a face View, to which are pivoted two spring-pawls, e, engaging with a ratchet-wheel, f, of which Fig. 5 is a face view, fast on the axle. The wheels may thus turn freely in cile direction, yet in the other they drive the axle c, and hence the machine may turn freely and run backward without transmitting any movement to the cutter-bar g. The nger-bar g is suspended from the frame and from the axle by articulated arms h fi, which permit the said bar and the cutter-bar to rise and fall according to the undulations of the ground. The arm 7L is articulated in a socket, j, which is itself articulated to the frame. These two articulations are perpendicular to each other. This arm is terminated at the other extremity by a fork, 7c, with which the linger-bar g is connected. Near this fork the arm h is furnished with a socket, h', iu ,which` is iitted so as to turn therein the extremity ot the second the frame-at b, near where the axle passes arm, c', whose other extremityis articulated toY (No model.) Patented in France July 22, 1879, in Belgium October 23, 1879, in Italy December 3l, 1879, and in Portugal February 4, 1880.

of the iinger-bar and cutter-bar above the ground. The said arm h has also attached to it, near its lower extremity, 'a chain, o, which secures it to a pendent piece, 19, which is articulated above on the tongue q, and connected by a rod with the whiftletree r, which is suspended in any suitable manner from the tongue g. This system of mounting facilitates the oscillations of the finger-bar and cutter-bar at the 6o same time that it permits the exact regulation of the direction of draft, which is very important in certain cases.

The finger-bar is guided upon the ground by a shoe, s, arranged on the inner end, while the outer end is supported by a roller. It is easy to raise the iinger-bar and cutter-bar by making them turn about the forked joint It, which supports the inner end of the linger-bar, the several parts of the machine being ar- 7o ranged so as not to hinder this movement.

The transmission of motion to the cutterbar and the throwing iu and out of gear are effected in the following manner: The axle carries upon it a bevel-gear, n, which is mounted 7 5 loosegupon it, and which gears with a bevelpinion, c, keyed upon a vertical intermediate shaft, fr, working in bearings in the frame c, and carrying a spur-wheel, y, which gears with a pinion, c, mounted on a second arbor, fw. 8o This latter carries on its lower part a crank, c", which is connected by the connecting-rod bwith the cutter-bar, the connections of the said rod with the crank and cutter-bar being made by double articulations or universal 8 5 joints.

The means ot' putting the cutting apparatus in or out ot' fgear with the axle consists of a rock-shaft, c, (see Fig. 3,) working in bearin gs on the frame, and furnished at the rear end 9o with a loaded handle, c2, and at the frontend with an eccentric, c3, which works in a groove in a sliding portion of a clutch, f, which connects the bevel-gear u with and disconnects it from the axle, the said handle c2 being so ar- 95 ranged as tobe worked by the driver sitting on the seat 7i.

I will remark that when the apparatus is to be operated as a hand-machine-that is to say, put in motion by two men, one drawing roo the machine, and the other putting the knives in motion by means of a hand-crank-it sufces to prolong the vertical shaft x at its upper end and to adapt to it a bevel-gearing carrying a crank.

. ant by a rod or a chain, it' desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Paten t, 1s-

In a harvester or mower, the combination,

with the finger-bar, of the arm h, articulated 2o in a swiveled socket, j, and connected with the cutter-bar, the pendant or lever-bar p, hinged to the tongue, the chain 0, connecting the arm h with the lower end-of said pendant,

and the whifetree 1, suspended from the z 5 tongue and connected by a rod with the pendant, all constructed and arranged as shown and specified.

E. LAGHZE. Witnesses:

Pozzo DI BORGO, E. BGNET. 

